Chapter 11: Security Services
Police civilian secretariat
208. � A civilian secretariat for the police service must be established by national legislation to
function under the direction of the Cabinet member responsible for policing.
intelligence
Establishment and control of intelligence services
209. � (1)
Any intelligence service, other than any intelligence division of the defence force
or police service, may be established only by the President, as head of the national
executive, and only in terms of national legislation.
(2) The President as head of the national executive must appoint a woman or a man as
head of each intelligence service established in terms of subsection (1), and must
either assume political responsibility for the control and direction of any of those
services, or designate a member of the Cabinet to assume that responsibility.
Powers, functions and monitoring
210. � National legislation must regulate the objects, powers and functions of the intelligence
services, including any intelligence division of the defence force or police service, and must
provide for—
(a) the co-ordination of all intelligence services; and
(b) civilian monitoring of the activities of those services by an inspector appointed
by the President, as head of the national executive, and approved by a
resolution adopted by the National Assembly with a supporting vote of at least
two thirds of its members.
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